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   Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:48 JST Kriszta Satori

   #BBCNews - #Russia to free #Evan #Gershkovich and Paul #Whelan in major prisoner swap
   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c29d6k382k5o
   #FreeEvanGershkovich #JournalismIsNotACrime

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:41 JST Kriszta Satori

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     Andrey #Pivovarov - opp activist, former director of the Open #Russia movement, detained in May 2021 (after being taken off a Warsaw-bound plane just before takeoff) sentenced to 4 ys on a charge of heading an "undesirable organisation."

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:41 JST Kriszta Satori

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     St Petersburg artist Sasha #Skochilenko - sentenced to 7ys for replacing supermarket pricing labels with anti-war messages: "The #Russian army bombed an art school in #Mariupol . Around 400 people were hiding inside," and: "My great grandfather did not fight in WWII for four years so that Russia could become a fascist state and attack #Ukraine ."

     She was convicted of spreading "false information" about the Russian army.

     #UkraineWar

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:42 JST Kriszta Satori

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     V WhiteHouse.gov:
     Statement by President Joe Biden on Securing the Release of Americans Detained in Russia
     https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/01/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-securing-the-release-of-americans-detained-in-russia/

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:42 JST Kriszta Satori

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     by the look of it many of the political prisoners in Russia you could often read about here are free - Novaya Gazeta has a list of some of the names not yet confirmed: Oleg #Orlov , Andrey #Pivovarov , Sasha #Skochilenko , Liliya #Chanysheva , Ksenia #Fadeyeva

     And here is a bit if background on them:

     Oleg Orlov, one of the leaders of Nobel Prize laureate human rights defender organisation Memorial - he is mentioned in this episode of #TheGlobalJigsaw https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fy6m49

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:43 JST Kriszta Satori

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     Acc to WSJ Russian opposition activist Vladimir #Karamurza has also been freed today!
     #Kara-#Murza was convicted of treason for his principal opposition to #Putin and the #UkraineWar
     He was poisoned twice before and still has serious health issues as a consequence of that

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:43 JST Kriszta Satori

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     Wondering about the two minors in the prisoner exchange, will try and find out more

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:44 JST Kriszta Satori

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     V WSJ:
     WSJ Reporter #Evan #Gershkovich Is Free

     Release of 32-year-old American from #Russia secured as part of largest East-West prisoner swap since Cold War

     https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/evan-gershkovich-free-cde745b3?mod=e2tw

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:45 JST Kriszta Satori

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     26 people from prisons in seven different countries were exchanged in Ankara, Turkey's presidency says.

     The prisoners are from the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia, and Belarus, it says in a statement.

     Ten people, including two minors, were relocated to Russia, 13 prisoners to Germany, and three to the US, the statement adds.

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:45 JST Kriszta Satori

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     Ilya #Yashin too is reported to be released - he is a #Russian opposition politician, friend of the late Boris #Nemtsov and Alexey #Navalny , who was jailed for 8.5 years for his post about the #Bucha massacre ( #UkraineWar ). He said “It’s better to spend ten years in prison than die of shame in silence for the blood your government is spilling"

     On a day like today I cannot stop thinking about the untimely death of Alexey #Navalny in prison

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:46 JST Kriszta Satori

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     V cpj.org:
     The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes reports that Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) editor #Alsu #Kurmasheva will be released as part of a prisoner exchange, and calls on Russia to release other jailed journalists and stop harassing those in exile.

     http://support.cpj.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=9561.0&dlv_id=25821&pgwrap=n

     #AlsuKurmasheva #EvanGershkovich

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:46 JST Kriszta Satori

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     A total of 24 people are set to be released as part of the prisoner swap expected to take place today between the US, Russia, Germany, and 3 other European countries.

     At least 12 political prisoners held in #Russia are expected to be released to #Germany, 8 Russians are expected to be returned to Russia, incl several with suspected ties to R intelligence. E.g. Vadim Krasikov, an #FSB colonel, who was serving a life sentence for the 2019 murder of a #Kremlin opponent in a #Berlin Park

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     Kriszta Satori (fulelo@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:17:47 JST Kriszta Satori

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     Der Spiegel is reporting that, as part of a major prisoner exchange with Russia, Vadim #Krasikov , identified by German officials as a colonel in #Russia ’s #FSB intelligence service, is on a plane to Ankara in #Turkey.

     He was serving a life sentence for the 2019 murder of a #Kremlin opponent in a Berlin park.